# \[e-drug\] Clinical trials and drugs: ethics and information **URL:** \ **Category:** e-drug\ **Created:** [October 6, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-clinical-trials-and-drugs-ethics-and-information/30628 "2008-10-06T19:35:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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E-DRUG: Clinical trials and drugs: ethics and information - 8th of October --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear E-druggers, The NGO Farmaceuticos Mundi and Medicus Mundi Catalunya are carrying out the awareness raising campaign called "Health for development". Its goal is to inform about the links between human rights, health and development in order to contribute, in the mid-term, to improving the Catalan health cooperation. We will organize the round table: "Clinical trials and drugs: ethics and information" on 8 October at 7 pm in Barcelona Biomedical Research Park. At this round table we will touch upon subjects such as ethics in the clinical tests and informing society about drugs, which are two key items in the production chain of a medicine. For both of them, the right conditions must be met. Otherwise, the consequences, mainly for the populations of poor countries, can lead to a disaster. In order to know what is a clinical test, which are its implementations and how we can spread research, we have invited Richard Smith. He advocates the improvement of access to scientific results, especially for developing countries, using a model of publications with open access to everyone. To talk about ethics in clinical tests we will have the participation of the Dutch organization Wemos, which publishes studies about clinical tests in poor countries. And to explain which information about drugs is transmitted to society, we have invited the German organization BUKO Pharma-Kampagne, which has a long experience in examining the marketing done and the information given by the pharmaceutical industry in connection with drugs. Round Table. Clinical tests and drugs: ethics and information Introduced by: M Elena Garcia, project leader of the campaign "Health for development". Chaired by: Mag¡ Farr, clinical pharmacologist and researcher at the IMIM-Hospital del Mar. The transparency and the relevance of clinical tests Richard Smith, chief executive of the United Health Europe and member of the board of directors of the scientific review PloS. The ethics of the clinical tests in developing countries Informing society: publicity or information? Annelies den Boer, project leader of the organization Wemos. Christian Wagner-Ahlfs, from the organization BUKO Pharma-Kampagne. More informatiom in the [1]website of the campaign (available in spanish and in catalan) M Elena Garcia Pujadas Project leader Campaign "Health for development" [2]www.salutxdesenvolupament.org [3]www.saludxdesarrollo.org References 1. [http://salutxdesenvolupament.org/ca](http://salutxdesenvolupament.org/ca) 2. [http://www.salutxdesenvolupament.org/](http://www.salutxdesenvolupament.org/) 3. [http://www.saludxdesarrollo.org/](http://www.saludxdesarrollo.org/)